The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) kept active in technical ratio analysis, on current situation shares price eased down -0.14% to $41.97. The total volume of 9.84 Million shares held in the session, while on average its shares change hands 13921.73 shares.

Efficiency Evaluation in Focus

Entering into profitability analysis, the co has noticeable returns on equity ratio of 25.90%, which discloses how corporation’s management efficiently generates profit from shareholders invested money. The returns on investment very popular metric among passive investors, it stands at 10.20%, when it lies in positive figure than security is feasible for investment or goes for higher ROI stocks. To see the other side of picture, profit margin of The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) stands at positive 15.60%; that indicates a firm actually every dollar of sales keeps in earnings. The 7.10% returns on assets present notable condition of firm. Mostly ROA known as a comparative measure, it is best to compare it against a firm’s previous ROA numbers or the ROA of a same firm.

Analysts Recommendation

Finally to see some strong financial remarks by WSJ over KO performance. Out of the pool of analysts 8 gave their BUY ratings on the stock in previous month as 8 analysts having BUY in current month. The stock was ranked as Underweight by 1 analyst while 1 analyst gave SELL rank. Majority ranked Overweight from the pool of analysts.

The next year first quarter EPS estimates trend for current period shows $0.44 while one month ago this estimate trend was for $0.44. EPS indicator shows the robustness of the stock and its analysis opens up the clear picture of company’s profitability. On annual basis of EPS, FY 2017 Estimate Trends at current were for $1.94 and for the one month was for $1.94 as compared to three months ago was for $2.12. KO received highest price target of 50 and low target of 36. The stock price target chart showed average price target of 43.68 as compared to current price of 41.97.

Following previous ticker characteristics, The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) also run on active notice, stock price eased down -0.14% after traded at $41.97 in most recent trading session.

KO has price to earnings ratio of 28.13 and the price to current year EPS stands at -10.40%. Whereas the traders who further want to see about this, may be interested to see Price to next year’s EPS that would be 3.97%. The earning yield also gives right direction to lure investment, as the co has 3.53% dividend yield. Moving toward ratio analysis, it has current ratio of 1.30 and quick ratio was calculated as 1.20. The debt to equity ratio appeared as 1.98 for seeing its liquidity position.

To find out the technical position of KO, The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) holds price to book ratio of 7.83 that unearth high-growth companies selling at low-growth prices, but it requires appropriate measurement approach. It has forward price to earnings ratio of 21.63. The price to earnings growth ration calculated as 9.34. KO is presenting price to cash flow of 8.07 and free cash flow concluded as 364.74.

Taking notice on volatility measures, price volatility of stock was 0.61% for a week and 0.80% for a month. The price volatility’s Average True Range for 14 days was 0.36. On these bases, analysts would recommend this stock as an “Active Revolving Stocks.” The firm attains analyst recommendation of 2.60 out of 1-5 scale with week’s performance of 0.83%. The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) ‘s institutional ownership was registered as 65.80%, while insider ownership was 0.10%.

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